Tea at Trianon: Boiling the Frog Slowly

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Boiling the Frog Slowly

From Tierney's Real News:

The good news is that people are awake now and realize this is all a scam - even many who declared there was no fraud in 2020!
In 2020, I was warning people daily of the post-election steal - but few were listening. It was like yelling into an empty room. Today, Democrats are openly stealing races - because we didn’t stop them last time - and have even admitted that they are counting ILLEGAL ballots in many races. They feel emboldened and don’t care that what they are doing in illegal. They figure they will get away with it again.
Below is a snapshot of the fraud - in real time - day by day. There’s NO reason for these states to take weeks to count ballots - unless they are making them in the back room!
On election night, Trump was ahead by 7 MILLION in the popular vote (52%) and the numbers pointed out glaringly that there was NO way that Biden could have ever gotten 81 MILLION votes in 2020 unless they manufactured them out of thin air. (Read more.)